obama had said now listen, this is all you're going to get. don't think you can come back and say i think three or more brigades do the trick. this is it. so no coincidence in 18 months to the day, obama appears and says he's pulling out all of the surge troops. not just through 5000, but all of them in the next year because basically it hadn't worked. he had a good situation because he could retrieve this is a victory because it killed osama bin laden. they had taliban troops in the field. the afghan arbutus getting better, but she didn't need the extra 33,000 troops to do all that. so he changed the mission and what has happened since his counterinsurgency has disappeared because of the failure of afghanistan's now abandoned us and that we shouldn't do and were reverting back to a new american way of war, which involves small footprint, drums from the sky, small commando raids, the opposite of counterinsurgency and on the one hand, at least for not sending 100,000 troops tamale or uganda. on the other hand they fear what this does do is set